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The Multinational Corporation as an Interorganizational Network

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Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation

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As pointed out recently by Kogut (forthcoming), the late 1980s have witnessed a significant evolution of academic interest in the MNC. An important element of this shift has been a change in the focus of research away from the dyadic headquarters-subsidiary relationship in MNCs, or the specific decision of a company to invest in a foreign location, to the coordination tasks of managing a network of established foreign subsidiaries and analysis of the competitive advantages that arise from the potential scope economies of such a network.

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Ghoshal, S., Bartlett, C.A. (1993). The Multinational Corporation as an Interorganizational Network. In: Ghoshal, S., Westney, D.E. (eds) Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22557-6_4

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